Join our BSc (Hons) Politics with Foundation programme and benefit from a foundation year specially designed to support you in developing all the essential skills for success in higher education. Our programme will kick start your career. At Plymouth you’ll build your critical thinking skills as well as your understanding of politics so you can be a part of the next generation leading change and tackling some of the major issues we face as a society. We place Politics in a broad setting – looking beyond Westminster and Washington to both the global and the hyperlocal. Our curriculum spans geographies and ideologies, allowing you to understand, compare and contrast political systems. Engage in critical current issues from security to the environment, gender and identity, while learning from research-active staff who are leaders in their subjects and are involved in real-world political campaigns. Apply your skills in relevant settings through our extensive range of placements and work experience opportunities and our connections in parliament and on the local political and NGO scene, with organisations like Shelter. Hone your skills in practical, real-world scenarios and learn how to campaign for a local constituency. Be assessed in authentic ways so you are ready to take that next step in politics when you graduate, with a focus on writing briefings and creating campaigning materials. Have a go at representing the UK at the Earth Summit on one of our simulations, which are a unique and important part of the way we teach. At Plymouth, your degree really is what you make it. From the second year, you can choose to add in modules from across the School of Society & Culture, broadening your perspective on the politics of the past with a module in History or by learning how society functions and evolves with a module in Sociology. Field trips and guest speakers will help you connect more directly with the world of politics, including a first-year trip to London where an MP gives us a behind the scenes tour of the House of Commons. Our active political scene on campus means you can join up with any of the political parties. What our students think: “Plymouth University provides a wide perspective of politics and international relations across the world allowing for your own ideas to be challenged and expanded.” – James Stoneman, International Relations and Politics, now youngest councillor on the Plymouth City Council.

In Foundation year, you’ll experience a supportive environment to assist in the transition to successful study in higher education. You will learn about academic writing, critical thinking skills and begin to develop your research skills, as well as develop your knowledge and understanding through an introduction to key aspects of international relations and politics, and other relevant areas of law and social science. In year one, you will meet and work with all members of staff in the politics and international relations group. You will develop the skills to thrive at Plymouth as an undergraduate, and be provided with opportunities to make friends with your peers on the course. You will find out what some key political thinkers have argued about democracy and its rivals. You will study the politics behind some of the most urgent environmental problems faced by humanity. You will compare different democratic systems across the world, and understand how various domestic and international political actors behave and how international systems have evolved. In your second year, you will look at the politics of the global south, study British politics as it evolves, explore different types of non-democratic regimes and find out how the EU works and how it intends to deal with the UK as its new neighbour. You can study how civil society groups shape politics, how political debate and opinion is changing via traditional and social media, and how globalisation influences our understanding of sovereignty. Alternatively, you can choose up to two modules from across our school or study abroad with one of our partner institutions overseas. In Final Year, you will do research on a political issue of your choice, with close support from our expert staff. You can choose from modules delivered by staff with research expertise in subjects such as the politics of the Middle East, Africa, the USA and Europe, environmental governance, the media, post-truth politics, or learn how to develop, plan and coordinate political campaigns and elections. There is also an opportunity to develop your skills with our work-based learning module. Make your degree your own, studying modules offered by other disciplines across our school.

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: L203

Institution code: P60

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Student satisfaction : 55%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 89%

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